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Excessive-Force Claim by Now-Incarcerated Former Maryland Guard Survives
Loaded on Oct. 31, 2022
by Harold Hempstead
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2022, page 20
Filed under:
Guard Brutality/Beatings.
Location:
Maryland.
by Harold Hempstead
On September 2, 2021, the federal court for the District of Maryland denied a motion for summary judgment made by a state prison guard who is the defendant in a case brought by a prisoner who was himself a former guard, and who alleged he was subjected ...
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- Unending ‘Crisis’ in San Diego County Jails: Hundreds Dead, Millions in Legal Payouts, by Jo Ellen Nott
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- Maine Caps Price of Phone Calls in State Prisons and Jails, by Benjamin Tschirhart
- San Diego County Pays $250,000 After Detainee Suicide in County Jail, by Jayson Hawkins
- New Federal ‘Fresh Start’ Student Loan Policy May Help Prisoners in Default, by Matthew Clarke
- Excessive-Force Claim by Now-Incarcerated Former Maryland Guard Survives, by Harold Hempstead
- South Carolina Judge Halts State Executions by Electrocution and Firing Squad, by Edward Lyon, David Reutter
- Michigan Supreme Court Says Prisoner’s Possession of Cell Phone by Itself Doesn’t Show Threat to Security, by David Reutter
- Ohio County Pays $2.5 Million for Photographing Female Detainees’ Tattooed Private Areas, by Kevin Bliss
- San Diego County Pays $3.488 Million After Jail Detainee Dies in Cell Extraction, by Chuck Sharman
- Federal Judge Calls Out BOP’s ‘Plinko’ Tactics, Orders Surgeon Found for Trans Prisoner’s Gender-Confirming Procedure, by Jacob Barrett
- San Diego County Pays $8.1 Million After Jail Guard Fatally Shot Fleeing Detainee in the Back, by Chuck Sharman
- The Catalog of Carceral Surveillance: Tablet Advertising That Can Also Issue Discipline, by Dave Mass
- Rifles, Tasers and Jails: How Cities and States Spent Billions of COVID-19 Relief, by Susie Cagle, Weihua Li, Anastasia Valeeva
- North Dakota Prisoner’s Conviction for Assault on Guard Vacated Due To Erroneous Jury Instruction, by David Reutter
- DOJ Finds Unconstitutional Conditions at Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, by David Reutter
- Washington DOC Fined $84,000 for Health Code Violations Found After TB Outbreak, by Jacob Barrett
- Georgia Jail Settles Suit Filed by Mentally Ill Female Detainees With Policy Changes and $1.2 Million in Attorney Fees and Costs, by Matthew Clarke
- Tenth Circuit Vacates Oklahoma Prisoners’ Witness Tampering Conviction, by David Reutter
- Condemned Alabama Prisoner Now Spared Twice, by Chuck Sharman
- Gang Violence in Texas Federal Prison Results in Two Deaths, Nationwide BOP Lockdown, by Keith Sanders
- Hawaii Governor Finally Appoints Coordinator for State DOC Oversight Commission, by Douglas Ankney
- $6,000 Sanction for Mississippi Federal Prosecutor Who Lied to Court About COVID-19 Vaccination Status, by David Reutter
- Sentencing Reports Show Longer Sentences, Few Compassionate Releases, by Casey Bastian, Benjamin Tschirhart
- Tennessee Governor Suspends Executions, Orders Investigation Into Lethal Injection Process, by Harold Hempstead
- Nebraska Supreme Court Says Revocation of Post-Release Supervision Does Not Bar Prisoner From Earning Good Time Credit, by David Reutter
- Seventh Circuit: Chicago Police Department’s 30-Day Claim-or-Forfeit Policy for Arrestee Property Is Constitutionally Adequate, by Casey Bastian
- Over $386,000 Awarded to Mississippi Prisoner, Plus Hip Surgery He Was Denied, by David Reutter
- Eighth Circuit Rules Federal Prisoner Need Only Know Item Is Prohibited To Support Conviction for Possession of Contraband, by David Reutter
- Wisconsin Pays $8,000 To State Prisoner After Seventh Circuit Revives Retaliation Claim Against Guard Over Destroyed Legal Documents, by David Reutter
- $215,000 Awarded to New Jersey Detainee Assaulted by Jail Guards, by Keith Sanders
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- Condemned Tennessee Prisoner Wins Fight Against Autopsy, June 15, 2023
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- Massachusetts Supreme Court Announces When Clock Begins to Run on Statutory Pretrial Detention, May 15, 2023
- Condemned Tennessee Prisoner Wins Fight Against Autopsy, May 1, 2023
- Sixth Circuit Won’t Hold Michigan County Liable After Mentally Ill Prisoner Impregnates Another, April 19, 2023
- Georgia Supreme Court: Trial Courts Are Bound to Follow Precedent of Court of Appeals, April 15, 2023
- Former CoreCivic Guard Pleads Guilty to Deprivation of Tennessee Prisoner’s Rights, April 1, 2023
- Massachusetts Supreme Court: Probationer’s Due Process Right to Present a Defense Violated Where Denied Opportunity to Call Complainant Who Alleged Sexual Assault as a Witness During Probation Revocation Hearing, March 15, 2023
- Maryland Court of Appeals: ‘No Objection’ to Introduction of Evidence at Trial That Was the Subject of Denied Motion to Suppress Does Not Waive Right to Appellate Review of Denial, March 15, 2023
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